Soul detachment

Maybe you should give it a shot

Most Hindu gurus who practice meditation speak so much about detaching your soul’s consciousness from this world and not being bound by the things of this world.

These gurus live above what an average person lives for. They do not care about money, women, love, or wealth. They have mastered the art of living consciously from their inner life or inner consciousness.

When I encountered this practice, it enthralled me, and I began practicing it.

I can’t explain the immense peace I have enjoyed all these years from meditation and living from my inner life and consciousness.

Maybe you should give it a shot.

Close your eyes and imagine you’re standing in the middle of a crowded market. If you’ve lived in Lagos, Nigeria, think about standing right at the center of a market. There are so many people moving past you, left, right, and center. Loud noises everywhere. Music blasting heavily from speakers. Bus conductor screaming for passengers, etc.

And you’re standing in the middle of all these, eyes closed, headphones on, and your favorite song is playing at the highest volume. The volume is so high, you can barely hear the noises and screams around you.

You’re only conscious of the environment in your head even if you’re standing right in the middle of chaos. The music in your ears has drowned out all the noises around you. You’re totally at peace.

We can say at this time that you’re totally detached from reality and from what is happening around you. This is a very layman description of the picture of what soul detachment looks like—you’re in this world, but NOTHING of this world moves or shakes you. Not in confession, but in how you live your daily life.

You go to work, dress up, eat, shop, hang out, etc., from an “outside of this world” consciousness. It’s like you’re seeing right through everything. This is not some mental thing you’re TRYING to enforce. This is your normal. You’re always at peace.

It will show if you’re detached from this world by how much your SOUL responds to things here. Your FIRST and consistent response to things is usually the picture of your most dominant consciousness.

“Joy in chaos” is a soul detachment effect. It is an effect (or consequence). It is not a “practice.” You don’t “practice” or try to have “joy in chaos”; no, you rather do something so that the result becomes “joy in chaos.”

So, “joy in chaos” is not a song or a statement or a confession. It is a description of the result of something else. If you haven’t done what you should do that will produce “joy in chaos,” no matter how much you confess “joy in chaos” or write and post about it, when life challenges hit you, you won’t remember you posted “joy in chaos” in the morning before you left home.

I’m not trying to talk down to what you’re posting on social media; I’m trying to say, if it’s not there, it’s not. That you posted it does not mean you have it. And to be honest, that state of “joy in chaos” is a very difficult place to get to.

Let’s not deceive ourselves. A lot of people do not have peace in their lives. They’re angry with themselves, the way things are going, their relationship, their family, their finances, their health, their bodies, etc. So that you sang the song and danced or cried does not mean anything will happen to you. We have been given a kingdom that cannot be moved. Abide by the principles.

You have to eat enough of God’s Word, stay long in prayers and meditation, and obey instruction upon instruction before your heart can even begin to understand how to live in joy in the midst of chaos.

And it’s not a one-time journey. You can get there today and fall off tomorrow. So that means whatever brought you there, you must keep doing it to remain there.

Back to soul detachment

Those who practice meditation, like the Hindus, only stop at the point where they see things in this world from an elevated mental perspective, but not from an eternal perspective. So all their meditation is limited in scope.

The scriptures give us the bigger picture of soul detachment.

1 Peter 4:1-2:

“Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh [and died for us], arm yourselves [like warriors] with the same purpose [being willing to suffer for doing what is right and pleasing God], because whoever has suffered in the flesh [being like-minded with Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [having stopped pleasing the world],”

Verse 2:

“so that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living for human appetites and desires, but [lives] for the will and purpose of God.”

Verse 1 explains how you are detached when you’re dead to the flesh; that’s what it means by the suffering in the flesh (flesh does not mean your physical skin; it means your soul's natural desires).

So, you are soul-detached from this world (according to verse 1) to do what?

Verse 2 gives us the answer.

“So that you can no longer live your life pursuing the things of this world but you now live your life for the will & purposes of God.”

Salvation in Christ is the beginning or starting point of the will of God and not all that there is.

What was the original purpose of God creating man? The fall wasn’t a part of God’s plan. So what was his initial purpose for creation? This means ultimately, all we are doing in salvation is getting back to the beginning of things through Christ. Salvation is the beginning and channel of things, not the end.

So, any soul detachment meditation and consciousness that does not lead to what God’s original plan and will are but simply ends in having a “higher” mental perspective about life’s issues, marriage, a happy home, or just being joyful and feeling happy is limited and ultimately purposeless.